Binary Australia: Australians don’t want gender neutral toilets
Michael Barnett OAM
Australians don’t want gender neutral toilets
There is a proposed change to the National Construction Code to ensure around half of all new public bathroom facilities are gender neutral.
This would include things like stadiums, shopping malls, and office blocks.
Urban Taskforce CEO Tom Forrest said that “matters like this should not be in the construction code”.
“The NCC must focus on setting minimum standards to ensure structural integrity, fire safety and waterproof building construction. It has grown from an initial 200 pages to over 2000 today. That’s red tape that needs to be cleared. Consumer preference will drive toilet type and supply.”
Polling indicates the move will be deeply unpopular.
According to polling released by the Australian Christian Lobby, 87 per cent of all Australians and more than 90 per cent of women are opposed to the idea, citing privacy, safety and hygiene concerns.
“If you talk to women on the street, most would rather ‘hold it’ than use a shared facility,” ACL chief executive Michelle Pearse said.
“There also issues with hygiene and many women will talk about the issues they have sharing toilets with men in a domestic situation and they don’t want to be dealing with that in a public situation.
“This is ideology compromising public safety.”
Construction codes should only be concerned with safety and structural integrity, not ideologies that put women and children in harm’s way.
Separate facilities exist because males and females are different and have different needs. There is no reason why males who wish they were women should be granted access to women or the ability to live out their fetish protected by public policy.
NSW Liberal upper house member Rachel Merton said: “Once again we see the biologic rights of girls and women sacrificed for the interests of radical gender ideology.
“Yesterday in NSW it was our birth certificates. Today it’s the public toilets. What’s next? These proposed changes stink and should be rejected by the Minns government. Women and girls deserve better than to have their privacy, safety and hygiene flushed down the S-bend.”
NSW intends to adopt the new code on May 1, 2027. The only state to reject the policy so far has been Tasmania.